Just wanted to say hello after just registering. There's a lot of good info here that I will pour through for a long time coming. Hope I will be able to contribute as well.
My dad bought the 4p shortly after they discontinued it. So he got it for a good price. I was 12 years old at the time. I spent every waking moment tinkering with that computer. Dad installed the 300 baud modem and the Grafyx Solution hi-res board. I loved messing around in Gbasic.
We also had quite a few operating system. TRSDOS 1.3, 6.2, LDOS, CP/M, and a few others I can't remember at this time. I used to rewrite BASIC games from 1.3 to work in 6.2 so I could get the 4mhz speed. I could run 1.3 in 4mhz with a poke command, but it would glitch and lock at times.
Super Utilities was my best friend. I used it to format my disks at 42 tracks instead of 40 to get the little extra space. I also used to punch an extra hole and a notch in the disks to make them double sided. I just flipped them over after loading the MODELA/III ROM.
Sorry for the long post. It's just exciting to see an actual active forum for this great machine. I've been looking for years.
My dad bought the 4p shortly after they discontinued it. So he got it for a good price. I was 12 years old at the time. I spent every waking moment tinkering with that computer. Dad installed the 300 baud modem and the Grafyx Solution hi-res board. I loved messing around in Gbasic.
We also had quite a few operating system. TRSDOS 1.3, 6.2, LDOS, CP/M, and a few others I can't remember at this time. I used to rewrite BASIC games from 1.3 to work in 6.2 so I could get the 4mhz speed. I could run 1.3 in 4mhz with a poke command, but it would glitch and lock at times.
Super Utilities was my best friend. I used it to format my disks at 42 tracks instead of 40 to get the little extra space. I also used to punch an extra hole and a notch in the disks to make them double sided. I just flipped them over after loading the MODELA/III ROM.
Sorry for the long post. It's just exciting to see an actual active forum for this great machine. I've been looking for years.